Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

My greatest strength is... common sense. I'm really a standard brand -- like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

If you follow all the rules, you miss all the fun.

Without discipline, there is no life at all.

If you obey all the rules, you'll miss all the fun.

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it . I would have made a terrible mother.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Enemies are so stimulating.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.

Only the really plain people know about love --the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they very soon exhaust their talents.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret? if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret...if you have any sense....And if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Never complain. Never explain.

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high- class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get--only with what you are expecting to give--which is everything.

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn....

I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be inferior.

. . . as one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.